Andrew Bird Quotes
I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not honest.
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I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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You can grow apart from people very quickly.
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It sounds cheesy, but if you feel good about yourself, it's going to show on the outside.
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Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.
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Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!
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I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.
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I am somewhat grateful to the disintegration of my marriage for teaching me a lot about myself and about relationships, and though I wish it hadn't been such a taxing lesson, I wouldn't change a thing.
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I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
